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New UWB technology for your home, car or flight
New UWB technology, being researched in Europe, may be able to transmit data at speeds of up to 1 Gbps and determine the location of a person/object to within 50 cm.
[ + ]Faster code writing may not speed applications
The size of embedded software is increasing every year. In fact, embedded systems contain significantly more software than only a couple of years ago. This expansion has resulted in new types of problems.
[ + ]Don’t get submerged by water monitoring
Despite recent floods in Australia, fresh water supplies are becoming dangerously low in many areas of the world, and the use of technology to better monitor, control and safeguard water flow helps protect this threatened and valuable resource.
[ + ]Project: Upgrading Victoria’s CFA
One of the world’s largest community safety and emergency service organisations, the Country Fire Authority (CFA) in Victoria, has selected Tait Radio Communications to replace its 10,000 handheld and vehicle-mounted radios.
[ + ]TETRA transport trial completed
Alcatel-Lucent and PowerTrunk have completed a trial of a TETRA/LMR network with New Jersey Transit in Newark.
[ + ]How safe is your mobile workforce?
Over recent years responsibility for fleet safety has shifted from drivers to organisations and even individual managers - making this a growing issue for Australian businesses.
[ + ]Good prognosis for vital signs monitor
The Lachesis vital signs monitor, developed by researchers at UniQuest’s commercialisation collaboration partner, the University of Technology Sydney, has received $70,000 in grants to help take the invention to the global market.
[ + ]ACMA tracks down interference
A recent ACMA investigation has identified two people who were unlawfully using a commercial radiofrequency for their own personal communications channel.
[ + ]RFID keeps track of sponges after surgery
ClearCount Medical Solutions has selected NXP RFID to enable its SmartSponge System to detect and account for surgical sponges placed in a patient’s body when undergoing surgery, so that no items are left behind.
[ + ]Moving beyond Zigbee for star networks
Multihop mesh protocols, such as Zigbee, are widely known for their ability to link together low data rate machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. Zigbee, in particular, is targeting itself as the standard bearer for wireless, low-power meshing protocols.
[ + ]Removing the bugs from embedded software
Releasing a product with bugs is potentially very expensive, especially considering the cost of field upgrades, recalls and repairs. Less quantifiable, but at least equally important, is the damage done to reputation and consequent loss of user goodwill.
[ + ]Records under threat when RadioComms Connect opens
Once again RadioComms Connect is set to break new ground and set new records when it opens at the Etihad Stadium in November.
[ + ]DMR gets attention and with good reason
Previous articles in Radio Comms Asia-Pacific have presented varying views on DMR technology and may have led some readers to believe that DMR is another digital radio ‘flash in the pan’ that has no place in an already busy Australian digital radio landscape.
[ + ]Evolving security needs for SCADA radio security
Cyber security is a key issue today and rarely out of the headlines. While most public focus relates to the Internet, SCADA engineers and security experts know that cyber terrorism concerns go beyond the Internet to other vectors, such as wireless.
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